Minutes of September 23, 1999 Meeting

Present:

Susan Beck; Natalie Borisovets; Jeanne Boyle, chair; Jeris Cassel; Judy Gardner; Harriette Hemmasi; Ann Montanaro, recorder; Bob Sewell; Myoung Wilson.

• The meeting was held in the Paul Robeson Library, Camden. Minutes from the July meeting were corrected to include Tom Frusciano's name as being present.

• Jeanne made the following announcements A generalist team has been established to review electronic networked resources. The members are Susan Beck, Natalie Borisovets, and Myoung Wilson. RLG is establishing a Public Services Group and Jeanne will participate. Jeanne and Jeris visited Western Monmouth Higher Education Center and learned how to use Rutgers' ITV classroom located there. A new bookmark series is being produced and they will be available at circulation desks. Digital printer/photocopiers are being reviewed as a possible solution to networked printing.

• Minutes will be sent to Council members before being distributed.

• The Council reviewed the goals and work plan for 1999-2000. Jeanne will create two lists - goals to be addressed by PSC and those to be referred to other councils and committees. At the next meeting Harriette will provide an update on recon and managing uncataloged resources.

• The Council requested that complete 930 tags be updated for print resources.

• New electronic resources are being added: Brittanica online, Ethnic Newswatch (from VALE) and Gale Literary Resources (VALE). Four committees have been established to review the VALE database set-ups and documentation. Cinahl and ABI are being reviewed by Rutgers librarians.

• The Council recommended dropping OVID's Current Contents when Web of Science is available.

• Responding to a request for direction, the Council recommended IRIS journal entries be closed as soon as the cancellation decision is made. It is not necessary to wait until the final issue is received.

The next meeting on October 28 will be an all-day meeting.